Improved extension-table



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77/7/19 0 I w fla n, PETERS, FHDTO-LITNOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON u C UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

, WILLIAM BEDLE, OF KEYPORT, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVED EXTENSION-TABLE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,774, dated April 10,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM BEDLE, of Keyport, county of Monmouth, andState of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Extension-Table; and1 do hereby declare the same is fully described and represented in thefollowing specification and the accompanying drawings, of which Figure lis a top view of my invention in a folded state; Fig. 2, a top view asenlarged; Fig. 3, a top view with the center boards removed and thefalling leaves raised, so as to form a round table; Fig. 4, alongitudinal section, showing the frame of table with drawer or box ofsame; Fig. 5, a transverse section, and Fig.6 an under-side view of mymultiform table.

The nature of my invention consists in so constructing or forming atable, simple, sub stantial, and compact, that the same shall be made toserve the purpose of side, breakfast, and dining table, as will behereinafter explained.

In the drawings, A represents an ordinary frame-table having a box orstationary drawer, B, for reception of table-linen and dining utensils.O G are the sliding tops or leaves. D D are the falling leaves, whichare hinged to the sliding tops. F is a bridge or brace for se curing theframe, as well as for sustaining the slide-pieces G G which are firmlyattached to and form part of the sliding tops.

The frame or box B has grooves G G, in,

which the tongues d d of the sliding tops move, said tongues and groovesbeing intended to direct the longitudinal movements of the tablet-ops,as well as to sustain them when the table attains its greatest length,as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. H H, 850., are the removable tops, which maybe ofany desirednumber. h h,

&c., are catches, which unite the said removable tops and fallingleaves, and K K are brackets or slide-bars, which sustain the fallingleaves when the table is used in the form shown in Fig. 3.

From the above description it will be seen that I have invented a "cryconvenient table for families occupying limited dwellings, for while mytable can be made to accommodate a large number at dinner, as shown inFig. 2, it can, on the cloth being removed, be transformed into a roundcard or breakfast table, as shown in Fig. 3, and can also be made toassume the convenient form shown in Fig. 1 as a work-table to be placedby a window or in the corner of a room of limited dimensions.

It will be observed that the frame of my table is stationary and forms adrawer in the frame-work thereof, while the tops with their fallingleaves slide on said frame, and in this respect differs essentially fromthe ordinary extension-table, where the frame-work with the end tops(being fastened together) extend by means of grooved bars which formpart of the frame-work of same. I therefore do not claim the latter; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The leaves D D, falling parallel to the line of extension, when incombination with the sliding tops 0 O, the removable top or centerboards, Gr G, and stationary box-frame, for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature.

WVILLIAM BEDLE.

\Vitnesses A. NEILL, WM. H. SMITH.

